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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Germany invades Holland

Heavy German artillery (Mörsers) probably near Ede, 14-16 May 1940. The signpost on the right shows Arnhem (left) and Amersfoort / Utrecht (right) (source).

On the morning of May 10th, 1940 the Dutch awoke to the sound of aircraft engines roaring in the sky. Germany had commenced operation Fall Gelb and attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg, in the case of the Low Countries without a declaration of war given before hostilities.

8 comments:

I don't know. I met an older Dutchman in England a few years ago. Every time he heard someone speaking German or saw a German license plate on a car, he'd get visibly mad, curse (in Dutch), and spit on the ground.

@ Jonathan - Germany is however not a unified country, because still there are sovereign states (100% German-speaking) outside Germany: Austria and Liechtenstein. Besides, German-speaking is Southern Tyrol and the biggest part of Switzerland.